A sheep's head costs (R)30-rand (approx. $5) in the Cape Town township of Langa. I've watched a man unload about 20 still-woolly heads from a shopping trolley onto a makeshift table that contained electrical cable in a former life.

Is there a better salad in the world than the salade Nicoise? It’s rich, refreshing, full of contrasting flavours and sunny ripeness - and the best thing is that even though it’s called salad, the boys like it as much as the girls do. But the controversy about what goes into it can get so heated, it could make the leaves wilt. Leaves? It shouldn’t have leaves in it

Since the 1980s, Jill Dupleix has had a distinguished career as a food writer in Australia – and, more recently, in Britain where she was food editor of The Times for six years. She also writes a fortnightly column, in Epicure.

Terry Durack was restaurant critic of London’s Independent on Sunday for 8 years. The author of six books, he is currently the chief restaurant reviewer for The Sydney Morning Herald and co-editor of the Good Food Guide 2011. He likes to eat.

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